@eldy
your trying to twist the truth. just admit, that's not what i said, and you misunderstood what i said. plain and simple, no need to get defensive, but i dealt with a lot of people like you. and no, with exeprience, there is no other way. doing both is necessary. i was going to say that, but the original poster decided to be biased. i stated facts, he skewed the truth. i fixed a lot of computers, i ran anti virus and learned that you have to do both. but i'm not going to reccomend that since the op seems to be a jackass, i don't help people like that. plain and simple. and this is making me laugh. cause after countless scans with computers that use to fix as a job, i notice it doesn't really get rid of all the viruses, you have reformat and scan after that. again, i'm not going to suggest it. LOL! i bet you if he scanned it twice, he wouldn't get rid of all of it. he'd be in for a rude awakening. and who said i was getting mad? it seems you are the one getting mad, and don't talk about yourself that way on being corrected. if you re read what i put, your the one getting hostile here. LOL! you made my day man, thanks. your trying to twist the subject, and you know it, plain and simple. you are quite defensive, and ballo just doesn't want to admit he's wrong, so he picks out certain situations, and a "full" format wipes the hd clean, and even if you scan, it doesn't get rid of it. If a format doesn't get rid of viruses you think a scan will? get out of here with that non sense. that's garbage.
@ballojustin
your are skewing the truth. which is the fact that a full format reinstall is the best method. i didn't say he shouldn't run malware software after, but that's totally immature to skew the truth in fact that he probably should do both. and it will live through a format? then what makes you think you can get rid of it through a scan? and a "full" format is probably the answer, a quick format leaves stuff behind. this is a fact. that's probably why the virus is still lingering in the system through a format.